Hesston Area Insight

Thank you for joining us today as we visit the Nest at 112 in Down Town Hesston. Located on Main St. you'll love this darling store and it's owners! Plan to visit during lunch and enjoy one of their special meals! As always, tell them Alex sent ya!

If you are looking for a place to live, Hesston offers quite a few options considering the size of our town. The locals call this development "The Gated Community". There is rod iron fencing all around, since it is located next to the Golf Course. There are currently lots available to build your single family home on. There are however, duplexes and triplexes located more in the center of the development surrounding some tennis courts and places to sit and relax.

For as small of a town that Hesston is, the community is proud to have a lot of green spaces for families to spend time playing and relaxing. There are six parks, plus one dog park, the Golf Park, and the schools' park areas that can can be used by the public.These include King Park, Heritage Park, Children's Park, Hickory Park, Emma Creek Park and Interstate Park. If you ever come through our town, please make sure to stop by the Chamber of Commerce office and pick up a welcome packet.

This library is celebrating 75 years of providing reading materials from books, to magazines, CD's and DVD's, books on tape/CD, story time for children and more. For many years the public library was housed right across the street from the City Hall, but was relocated several years ago to a larger building on N Main Street, updated with the latest in library science for all ages to enjoy.

If you are looking to enjoy a nice dining experience, check out the Water's Edge Restaurant at the Wellness Center. They have an extensive menu on weekends, as well as buffet style meals and Sunday brunch. Enjoy!

When my husband and I moved to Hesston, we thought we would give it five years before we would move again. Well, it has been over 25 years. My husband enjoys working in the same town that he lives in. We have raised our four children here, knowing that they had good schools with top notch teachers, plenty of extra-curricular activities, and wonderful friends. There are lots of walking paths and sidewalks that we enjoy using in the evenings. For a small town with approximately 4000 people, there are so many extra amenities that we have here: five churches, an arboretum, parks, tennis courts, a grocery store, restaurants, a wellness center, a pharmacy, medical and eye doctors, a college, banks, a public library, a lumber yard, a hardware store, an antique store, a donut shop and other unique stores. We love it here.

Hesston was established in 1886 as a village with the post office being in Elivon. The post office was renamed to Hesston on Dec. 16, 1887. Hesston was founded and named after the Hess brothers where the train depot on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was built. By 1912 Hesston had grown into an important shipping and receiving point for farmers throughout the region.Many of the early settlers were Mennonite farmers. In 1909, the Mennonite Church founded Hesston College in the town. In 1981, the Dyck Arboretum of the Plains was founded on 13 acres which today is a tourist destination for schools, visitors and wedding parties. It showcases more than 600 varieties of native vegetation, walking trails and a pond. Today, Hesston is home to approximately 3700 people. Hesston has good schools, parks, hiking/biking trails, businesses, churches and a wonderful community spirit.